Customize Your Theme

I recommended that you avoid making changes to themes directly. Creating child themes and working with offline files are the safest ways to make any changes to the code. Working this way means that way if you do happen to inadvertently create any issues on your site while tweaking it, you have the original files and can quickly re-upload them to overwrite your changes.

Child themes allow you to add new functionality and style changes without ever altering the parent theme files. This is especially useful if you ever update the parent theme. If you have made changes directly to the parent theme, any update will wipe them out and you will need to spend time recreating them all.

More Customization Options

Check out the following ways you can continue to personalize your site and take it to the next level:

Customize your site’s header and background
Tweak fonts, colors, and add CSS for a custom design
Change your URL by registering a new domain
Set a custom “Home” page on your site
Learn more about all your site settings